Quotes About Authority

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population.

Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism

The slave makes an awful master

Alzó cuatro nudosos dedos—: la erudición de los sabios, la justicia de los poderosos, las plegarias de los justos y el coraje de los valerosos. Pero eso no vale nada... —Cerró los dedos en un puño— sin un gobernante que conozca el arte de gobernar.

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.

You will address me as Sire or my Lord," Paul said.

Rekli su da sve tvoje slobode nestaju kad pokorno gledaš u nekog apsolutnog vladara.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.

Vjerske ustanove ovjekovje?uju odnos izme?u smrtnog gospodara i smrtnog sluge, re?e Leto.One stvaraju pozornicu koja privla?i ponosne ljude koji žude za mo?i sa svim njihovim kratkovidnim predrasudama!

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?

Existe un límite a la fuerza que hasta los más poderosos pueden aplicar sin destruirse a sí mismos. Calcular dicho límite es el auténtico arte de gobernar. El mal uso del poder es un pecado fatal. La ley no puede ser un instrumento de venganza, nunca un rehén y tampoco un refugio contra los mártires que ha creado. Uno no puede amenazar a un individuo y librarse de las consecuencias. Muad'Dib sobre la ley, Comentarios de Stilgar

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

He was reminded that the more he ordered the weather controlled, the more there was that required control. Absolutes only brought him closer to vagaries.

Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance

Evidence! What is evidence except those things you are allowed to perceive? That's what Law tries to control: carefully managed reality.

You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract people who can be corrupted. That is a more descriptive observation than to say simply that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.

When oracles failed, one turned to real spies and physical powers.

Când sunt mai slab ca voi, v? cer libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor voastre; când sunt mai puternic ca voi, v? iau libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor mele.